No one likes that feeling of something pointy in their shoe! Explore -ock words and practice reading comprehension with this short poem and accompanying questions.

Concepts

-ock words, rhyming, rhyming words, reading comprehension, spelling patterns, spelling, phonics

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• After finishing the questions, work as a class to come up with more -ock words
• Assign this for homework or as a starter exercise
• Ask learners to highlight or underline the words in the poem that gave them the answers to the comprehension questions

Classroom Considerations

• The poem feels a bit forced; in an attempt to get as many -ock words into the text, the creators of this poem made two disconnected stanzas

Pros

• The handwriting lines provided will support beginning writers

Cons

• This does not include an answer key; however, the answers should be relatively easy to determine

Common Core

RL.1.1 RI.1.1 RF.1.4.a